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Chili pepper on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Chili pepper is a kind of fruit vegetable. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 52,145 products, most often in dressings and sauces. Per 100 g: about 44 kcal and 1.9 g protein.
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Does chili pepper contain an allergen?
Chili pepper is not one of the allergens that food labels must declare in the US, the UK, Europe or the Gulf. Open Food Facts does not link it to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one.
Is chili pepper vegan?
Yes. Chili pepper is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does chili pepper have on a label?
In English chili pepper can also read “chilli pepper”, “chilli” or “chillies”. On European labels it is “piment” in French, “Peperoni” in German and “guindilla” in Spanish. The other 13 languages are listed below.
- French
- piment, chili
- German
- Peperoni, chilischoten
- Spanish
- guindilla, ají
- Italian
- peperoncino
- Dutch
- pepers, peperoni
- Portuguese
- chili
- Polish
- papryka chili, papryka chilli
- Swedish
- chilipeppar, chili
- Danish
- Chili, chilipeber
- Norwegian
- chilipepper, paprikaslekten
- Finnish
- chili, chilipippuri
- Czech
- chilli paprička
- Hungarian
- Csilipaprika
- Romanian
- chili, ardei iute
- Croatian
- čili, Čili paprike
- Turkish
- Acı biber
Which foods contain chili pepper?
Open Food Facts lists chili pepper or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 52,145 products, most often dressings and sauces, ready meals and savoury snacks. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 23,783 · France 10,677 · United Kingdom 5,200 · Germany 4,505.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where chili pepper turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in chili pepper?
Chili pepper has about 44 kcal per 100 g, with 1.9 g protein, 7.7 g carbohydrate and 0.3 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Chili pepper, raw” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.
Also per 100 g: sugars 5.3 g, saturated fat 0 g, fibre 1.7 g, salt 0.02 g, energy 187 kJ.
ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 20151. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.
What kind of ingredient is chili pepper?
Chili pepper is a kind of fruit vegetable.
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Sources
An allergen is stated only when two of three checks agree: the Open Food Facts record, Bravoora’s label checker, and the ingredient’s own name or family (oat flour is oats, a cheese is milk). Every name where they disagree waits for a person to review it.
- Open Food Facts: Chili pepper
- Open Food Facts: ingredients taxonomy (names, family tree, allergen and vegan flags), ODbL
- Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
- ANSES: CIQUAL French food composition table (CALNUT 2020 edition), Licence Ouverte 2.0
- Wikipedia: Chili pepper
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